On Day 16, we showed the adjusted 12-by-12 strategy with full performance metrics against buy-and-hold, the 60-40 SPY-IEF ETF portfolio, and the 200-day SMA strategy. In all cases, it tended to perform better than the benchmarks. However, against th...

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Data reshaping is a vital task in modern data analysis. Data analysts can handle complex data transformations quickly with dcast and variable labels in data.table R. The data.table package provides powerful tools to restructure datasets. These tools help professionals work with large-scale data manipulation tasks in R. This ...

Gradient boosting with any regression algorithm in Python and R package mlsauce. Part4, Time series forecasting

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Mobile apps just need to use screen space well and keep users involved. Developers often struggle to show more information without making the interface messy. React Native’s expandable icon components offer a great solution. These components help apps present content in a clean way that lets users access extra ...

On Day 15 we adjusted our model to use more recent data to forecast the 12-week look forward return. As before, we used that forecast to generate a trading signal that tells us to go long the SPY if the forecast is positive, and exit (or short for t...

On Day 14 we showed how the trading model we built was snooping and provided one way to correct it. Essentially, we ensure the time in which we actually have the target variable data aligns with when the trading signals are produced. We then used th...

A scatterplot is a chart that displays the relationship between two variables by plotting data points along the X and Y axes, with each point representing a unique pair of values. By conditionally formatting points based on their category, we can reveal patterns, clusters, or outliers, making it easier to ...

K-Nearest Neighbours algorithm doesn’t deal very well with high-dimensional data and complex decision boundaries. Data points’ meaningful relationships often escape traditional distance metrics, which results in suboptimal classification. KNN with RBF metric solves these limitations by changing the feature space into a better format for similarity calculations. Our readers ...